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School: Whitecross, Julianstown (roll number 3380)

Location:
Whitecross, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Criostóir Breathnach
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    43. Speech is silver silence is golden.
    44. Waste not want not.
    45. It is no time to spare when all is spent.
    46. Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
    47. Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
    48. Necessity is the mother of invention.
    49. Unhappy lies the head that wears a crown.
    50. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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  2. Proverbs

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    1. Every cloud has a silver lining.
    2. One good turn deserves another.
    3. A good name is better than riches.
    4. Beggars cannot be choosers.
    5. Help a lame dog over the style.
    6. Money makes the horse go.
    7. Charity begins at home.
    8. Time and tide waits for nobody.
    9. Its better to save early than late.
    10. Wisps make a bundle.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May O' Brien
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Sarsfieldstown, Co. Meath